“‘Dhalgren’ is like the ‘Gravity’s Rainbow’ or the ‘Ulysses’ of science fiction,” says fantasy and sci-fi novelist Gregory Frost ("Shadowbridge").Presenting a profile of the great Samuel Delany.
And it is no less controversial than Thomas Pynchon and James Joyce’s respective masterpieces: Legendary scribe Philip K. Dick called “Dhalgren” “a terrible book (that) should have been marketed as trash.”
Thursday, April 09, 2009
Posted by Gerry Canavan at 11:25 AM
Labels: Dhalgren, Gravity's Rainbow, James Joyce, Philip K. Dick, Pynchon, Samuel Delany, science fiction, Ulysses
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